2 papers
cs.CV2026
Spatial Reasoning is Not a Free Lunch: A Controlled Study on LLaVA
Nahid Alam, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +7
Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet they still struggle with basic spatial reasoning. Despite strong performance on general benchmarks, modern VLMs remain brit…
cs.CV2026
The Spatial Blindspot of Vision-Language Models
Nahid Alam, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +7
Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their ability to capture spatial relationships remains a blindspot. Current VLMs are typically built with contrastive langu…